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Tag Archives: collective fugue

Alan Watts on our collective fugue state

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘One can only draw the conclusion that the assumption underlying this is that expressions of physical love are far more dangerous than expressions of physical hatred. And it seems to me that a culture that has that sort of … Continue reading →

Posted in 'evil', Alan Watts, awakening, community, compulsive behaviour, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, fear, human condition, interconnection & belonging, meaning, natural world, paradigm shift, perception, political, power and powerlessness, presence, shadow, sustainability, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Alan Watts, alienation, be the change, be the change you wish to see, being the change, Collective Evolution, collective fugue, collective numbing, collective shadow, collective trauma, compulsive behaviour, consumer society, consumerism, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural death wish, cultural disconnection, cultural fugue, cultural passivity, cultural shadow, cultural trauma, death wish, disposable culture, ecological destruction, economic growth fallacy, existential meaning, fear based paradigm, fear of connection, fear of love, fear of relationship, how TV ruined your life, human impact on evironment, human purpose, lack of communion, lack of community, lack of connection, lack of joy, lack of meaning, learned passivity, life's purpose, living in a bubble, loss of engagement, loss of joy, loss of meaning, loss of relationship, loss of sacredness, low cost counselling exeter, manifested reality, materialism, Matrix, mindlessness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, passivity, person centred counselling exeter, psychotic culture, purpose of life, self harming behaviour, sick culture, social disconnectedness, social disconnection, social isolation, throwaway culture, traumatised culture, traumatized culture, wetiko, Wetiko Capitalism, wetiko psychosis, Wetikonomy, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Woman was too scared to leave job centre during a heart attack, fearing sanctions – Kitty S Jones

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/woman-was-too-scared-to-leave-job-centre-during-a-heart-attack-as-she-feared-being-sanctioned/ Click on the above link to visit Kitty’s blog for this piece on the brutal, damaging DWP work assessment system. This begins with one woman’s appalling experience, and then makes some general points. Kitty refers to Ken Loach’s powerful, … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, acceptance, awakening, bullying, civil rights, cognitive, community, compassion, cultural questions, Disconnection, empathy, empowerment, ethics, interconnection & belonging, James Hillman, kindness & compassion, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, political, power and powerlessness, reality, sadness & pain, shadow, trauma, violence, vulnerability | Tagged accurate perception, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, anesthetised heart, anesthetized heart, ATOS, austerity, authenticity and realism, basic survival needs, Benefit Conditionality and Sanctions, benefit sanctions, benefit sanctions regime, benefits enforcement, Camilla Long on Daniel Blake, cognitive dissonance, collective fugue, collective trauma, compassion, Conservative treatment of disabled, Conservative welfare reforms, cost of sanctions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cruelty of sanctions, cultural disconnection, cuts to frontline services, Damian Green, Daniel Blake, David Clapson, David Sugg, death after being found fit for work, demystification, disability benefits, disconnection, discriminating against disabled people, disempowerment, distorted reality, distorting reality, DWP, DWP made up claimants, Equality Trust, erosion of social security, fear of being sanctioned, fictional sanctions stories, fit for work, fugue state, George Vranikovic, Hayley Squires, I Daniel Blake, Iain Duncan Smith, in work conditionality, in work progression interviews, incentivising people into work, ineffectiveness of sanctions, irresponsible journalism, James Hillman, Ken Loach, Kitty S Jones, lacking compassion, losing benefits, low cost counselling exeter, Maximus, mental health and work capability assessments, moving people off benefits, mystification, National Audit Office on sanctions, neoliberalism, no financial safety net, non compliance, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Paul Dennett, person centred counselling exeter, political ideology, psychological distress, punitive sanctions, Salena Hannah, sanction scheme, sanctions, sanctions barrier, sanctions demotivator, Sheila Holt, social security system, Steve McCall, sudden loss of income, suicide and work capability assessments, survival needs, Susan Roberts, Tim Roache, Toby Young on Daniel Blake, trauma and reality perception, trauma responses, universal basic income, use of food banks, vulnerable claimants, vulnerable people, Wanda Wyporska, welfare conditionality, welfare enforcement, welfare expenditure, welfare reforms, welfare sanctions, withholding benefits, work capability assessment, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

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